Taylor Johnson is from Washington, D.C. He is the author of Inheritance, winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2024 Whiting Award. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. He was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum and is the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, Md. With his wife, Elizabeth Bryant, Johnson curates the Green Way Reading Series at People’s Book in Takoma Park.